Gladys Bentley
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title:
Gladys Bentley
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Gladys Alberta Bentley was an American blues singer, pianist, and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance. Her career skyrocketed when she appeared at Harry Hansberry's Clam House, a well-known gay speakeasy in New York in the 1920s, as a black, lesbian, cross-dressing performer. She headlined in the early 1930s at Harlem's Ubangi Club, where she was backed up by a chorus line of drag queens. She dressed in men's clothes, played piano, and sang her own raunchy lyrics to popular tunes of the da
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American blues singer (1907–1960)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Bentley
date created:
2005-11-09T09:32:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T17:11:06Z
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